The pins on the left side in your picture are for connecting an FTDI Basic (or equivalent) for sketch downloads via the serial port.You can connect other things to them after you get your sketch downloaded; with a little attention to your connection strategy you shouldn't need to tho.

Making the board a couple of tenths longer bringing A4, A5 (and analog input only pins A6 and A7) out to the sides would have been convenient.

This is the correct schematic for the Pro Minihttp://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/Arduino-Pro-Mini-schematic.pdfAs I explained, the 6 on the left for connecting an FTDI Basic for programming, the rest are for connecting up to your circtuit.You'd have to ask sparkfun why 2 reset pins. We don't know.